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The People We Hate At The Wedding by Grant Ginder (releases June 6) Relationships are awful. They'll kill you, right up to the point where they start saving your life.
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Touch by Courtney Maum (releases May 30) A satirical and moving novel in the spirit of Maria Semple and Jess Walter about a New York City trend forecaster who finds herself wanting to overturn her own predictions, move away from technology, and reclaim her heart.
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You'll Grow Out Of It by Jessi Klein As both a tomboy and a late bloomer, comedian Jessi Klein (executive producer of Inside Amy Schumer) grew up feeling more like an outsider than a participant in the rites of modern femininity.
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Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud: The Rise and Reign of the Unruly Woman by Anne Helen Petersen (releases June 20) From celebrity gossip expert and BuzzFeed culture writer Anne Helen Petersen comes an accessible, analytical look at how female celebrities are pushing boundaries of what it means to be an “acceptable” woman.
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Startup by Doree Shafrir From veteran online journalist and BuzzFeed writer Doree Shafrir comes a hilarious debut novel that proves there are some dilemmas that no app can solve.
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One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter: Essays by Scaachi Koul Scaachi Koul deploys her razor-sharp humor to share all the fears, outrages, and mortifying moments of her life. A debut collection of fierce, funny essays about growing up the daughter of indian immigrants in Western culture, addressing sexism, stereotypes and the universal miseries of life.
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When You Find Out the World Is Against You: And Other Funny Memories About Awful Moments by Kelly Oxford Twitter star and the author of the New York Times bestseller Everything Is Perfect When You’re a Liar returns with a deeper and even funnier new collection of essays about the pleasures and perils of living in Kelly Oxford’s head.
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The Idiot by Elif Batuman A heroic yet self-effacing reckoning with the terror and joy of becoming a person in a world that is as intoxicating as it is disquieting. Batuman's fiction is unguarded against both life's affronts and its beauty--and has at its command the complete range of thinking and feeling which they entail.
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Our Little Racket by Angelica Baker (releases June 20) A captivating debut about wealth, envy, and secrets: the story of five women whose lives are dramatically changed by the downfall of a financial titan.
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Theft by Finding: Diaries by David Sedaris (releases May 30) For forty years, David Sedaris has kept a diary in which he records everything that captures his attention-overheard comments, salacious gossip, soap opera plot twists, secrets confided by total strangers.
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The Rules Do Not Apply: A Memoir by Ariel Levy A gorgeous memoir about a woman overcoming dramatic loss and finding reinvention.
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Fly Me by Daniel Riley (releases June 6) A nation on the verge of a new era-and a girl caught between her past and the ever-expanding present.
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Goodbye, Vitamin by Rachel Khong (releases July 11) Freshly disengaged from her fiancé and feeling that life has not turned out quite the way she planned, thirty-year-old Ruth quits her job, leaves town and arrives at her parents’ home to find that situation more complicated than she'd realized.
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Into the Water by Paula Hawkins The author of the #1 New York Times bestseller and global phenomenon The Girl on the Train returns with Into the Water, her addictive new novel of psychological suspense.
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A Separation by Katie Kitamura A searing, suspenseful story of intimacy and infidelity, A Separation lays bare what divides us from the inner lives of others. With exquisitely cool precision, Katie Kitamura propels us into the experience of a woman on edge, with a fiercely mesmerizing story to tell.
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All Grown Up by Jami Attenberg From the New York Times best-selling author of The Middlesteins comes a wickedly funny novel about a thirty-nine-year-old single, childfree woman who defies convention as she seeks connection.
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Cork Dork: A Wine-Fueled Adventure Among the Obsessive Sommeliers, Big Bottle Hunters, and Rogue Scientists Who Taught Me to Live for Taste by Bianca Bosker With boundless curiousity, humor, and a healthy dose of skepticism, Bosker takes the reader inside underground tasting groups, exclusive New York City restaurants, California mass-market wine factories, and even a neuroscientist’s fMRI machine as she attempts to answer the most nagging question of all: what’s the big deal about wine?
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The Girl Before by JP Delaney In the tradition of The Girl on the Train, The Silent Wife, and Gone Girl comes an enthralling psychological thriller that spins one woman’s seemingly good fortune, and another woman’s mysterious fate, through a kaleidoscope of duplicity, death, and deception.
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Who Thought This Was a Good Idea? And Other Questions You Should Have Answers to When You Work in the White House by Alyssa Mastromonaco If your funny older sister were the former deputy chief of staff to President Barack Obama, her behind-the-scenes political memoir would look something like this...
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We Are Never Meeting In Real Life: Essays by Samantha Irby Sometimes you just have to laugh, even when life is a dumpster fire. With We Are Never Meeting in Real Life., “bitches gotta eat” blogger and comedian Samantha Irby turns the serio-comic essay into an art form
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Swimming Lessons by Claire Fuller Ingrid Coleman writes letters to her husband, Gil, about the truth of their marriage, but instead of giving them to him, she hides them in the thousands of books he has collected over the years. When Ingrid has written her final letter she disappears from a Dorset beach, leaving behind her beautiful but dilapidated house by the sea, her husband, and her two daughters, Flora and Nan.
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The Futures by Anna Pitoniak In this dazzling debut novel about love and betrayal, a young couple moves to New York City in search of success-only to learn that the lives they dream of may come with dangerous strings attached.Photo: @honibeeco -
This Is Really Happening by Erin Chack BuzzFeed senior writer Erin Chack hits you in the guts, the feels, and the funny bone all at once with this collection of personal essays that reads like Sloane Crosley for the Snapchat generation. A young adult release.
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Hello, Sunshine by Laura Dave (releases July 11) Sunshine Mackenzie truly is living the dream. A lifestyle guru for the modern age, Sunshine is beloved by millions of people who tune into her YouTube cooking show, and millions more scour her website for recipes, wisdom, and her enticing suggestions for how to curate a perfect life.
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The Mothers by Brit Bennett A dazzling debut novel from an exciting new voice, The Mothers is a surprising story about young love, a big secret in a small community—and the things that ultimately haunt us most.
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